Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1824

View at The Met ↗

Palette

Linen
36% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

Putty
22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1

Salmon
14% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.8:1

Iron
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

Ash
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese, 1786–1864
Date: ca. 1824
Type: Print
Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Size: 8 7/16 x 7 3/8 in. (21.4 x 18.7 cm)
Place: Japan
Period: Edo period · 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1921. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1864: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1935. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō

Palette

Details

Works that share this palette

More by Utagawa Kunisada